News articles tagged with 'quark'
Hot stuff: Quark-gluon-plasma explained by black-hole-physics
— 18 Aug 2010 17:09 | PhysicsParticle physics is is seeing revolutionary developments. Baffling connections are emerging between the physics of gravitation and the physics of elementary particles. With completely…
Exotic antimatter detected at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
— 15 Mar 2010 14:27 | PhysicsAn international team of scientists studying high-energy collisions of gold ions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference particle accelerator located…
'Bubbles' of broken symmetry in quark soup at RHIC
— 16 Feb 2010 12:00 | PhysicsScientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, report the…
'Perfect' liquid hot enough to be quark soup
— 16 Feb 2010 11:17 | PhysicsRecent analyses from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference 'atom smasher' at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, establish…
Observation of confinement phenomenon in condensed matter
— 30 Nov 2009 11:12 | PhysicsAn experiment has confirmed that spinons, particle-like magnetic excitations, can be confined in a magnetic insulator similar to the way elementary quarks are confined within individual…
MSU scientists help lead teams in detection of fundamental component of matter
— 22 Mar 2009 17:40 | PhysicsMichigan State University scientists and colleagues around the world took a step closer to understanding the universe with the discovery of a fundamental building block of nature. The…
Particle oddball surprises CDF physicists at Fermilab
— 20 Mar 2009 12:00 | PhysicsScientists of the CDF experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced 17 March that they have found evidence of an unexpected particle whose…
Research team co-led by UC Riverside physicist observes production of single-top-quarks
— 10 Mar 2009 15:30 | PhysicsA group of 28 scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, co-led by UC Riverside's Ann Heinson, has made the first observation of the production…
Moving quarks help solve proton spin puzzle
— 12 Sep 2008 19:24 | PhysicsNew theory work at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has shown that more than half of the spin of the proton is the result of the movement…
Physicists' analysis leads to discovery of new particle
— 11 Sep 2008 22:50 | PhysicsUniversity of Michigan physicists played a leading role in the discovery of a new particle, the Omega b baryon, which is an exotic relative of the proton. It was detected for the first…